20 million dollar question

[bobblehead]

I think it would be very likely that murph offered favre a 20 million dollar 10 year deal to "work for the packers in a number of ways" kinda deal. You know, we don't want you to be our QB, but we feel you deserve the payout and would like to keep you with the organization kinda deal.

This would be far different than a bribe to stay home, and seems the only reasonable thing that I can imagine that would have occurred.

[falco]

i stand by my point that the only way this occured is if Murphy is in way over his head.....

you have to imagine that releasing favre or trading him to the vikings would be better for everyone than paying him to sit home when he wants to play

[Bretsky]

Re: 20 million dollar question

I think it would be very likely that murph offered favre a 20 million dollar 10 year deal to "work for the packers in a number of ways" kinda deal. You know, we don't want you to be our QB, but we feel you deserve the payout and would like to keep you with the organization kinda deal.

This would be far different than a bribe to stay home, and seems the only reasonable thing that I can imagine that would have occurred.

I was thinking about this and it would be reasonable to think it was presented this way. I could see Murphy trying to befriend Favre and throw this out there.

But I think there is so little mutual trust I could also see Favre thinking this was basically a bribe to keep him away

Regardless, IMO it's very clear if this occurred that they do not understand Brett Favre

[sepporepi]

Regardless, IMO it's very clear if this occurred that they do not understand Brett Favre

But you do ?


SEriously now:

Maybe he is just scared what to do with the rest of his life?

Start drinking again?

Play 8h golf each day?

So to present him a package with some meaningful things to in the next 10 years, still being assosiated with the "team" and even earn 2M/year might not be the worst idea. At least to me it is not so bad as most people here present it.

[The Leaper]

Seriously?

Why the hell would Favre want to work for an organization that is preventing him from playing football?

Why would he want to work with Thompson or McCarthy?

This is getting comical. The $20M offer is nothing but a bribe...even if the offer was posed with some kind of fancy window dressing. The Packers right now are DESPERATE to keep Favre from showing up in Green Bay.

[MOBB DEEP]

Seriously?

Why the hell would Favre want to work for an organization that is preventing him from playing football?

Why would he want to work with Thompson or McCarthy?

This is getting comical. The $20M offer is nothing but a bribe...even if the offer was posed with some kind of fancy window dressing. The Packers right now are DESPERATE to keep Favre from showing up in Green Bay.

is it to save face or to win playoff/big games???

[neil38133]

The Packers are NOT preventing Favre from playing football. They are just not allowing him to play HOW he wants to, for WHO he wants to, WHEN he wants to. Favre is not used to not getting his way. He seems to want to run the team, from telling TT who he should sign, to telling MM who his QB should be. These are NOT player decisions.
Favre and Bus Cook have caused this mess, and I blame them for 80% or so of it.

[LL2]

$20 Million dollars? Trade him for a 5th round pick and use the money to get Grant into camp and extend some contract for some of the up and coming promising players.

[sharpe1027]

Seriously?

Why the hell would Favre want to work for an organization that is preventing him from a guaranteed starting position?

Why would he want to work with Thompson or McCarthy?

This is getting comical. The $20M offer is nothing but a bribe...even if the offer was posed with some kind of fancy window dressing. The Packers right now are DESPERATE to keep Favre from showing up in Green Bay.

Fixed.

[The Leaper]

The Packers are NOT preventing Favre from playing football.

Really?

What else do you call offering a guy $20M to stay home?

The Packers are trying their best to keep Favre from playing.

[The Leaper]

Why the hell would Favre want to work for an organization that is preventing him from a guaranteed starting position?

You are incorrect Sharpe.

Favre asked if he coming back to COMPETE was an option. Green Bay said no.

Make no mistake. Green Bay's position right now is to do everything possible to keep Favre from playing football anywhere in 2008, including offering $20M buyouts.

[Fritz]

The Packers are NOT preventing Favre from playing football.

Really?

What else do you call offering a guy $20M to stay home?

The Packers are trying their best to keep Favre from playing.

Umm, Leap, before this happened several sources have confirmed that TT had trade partners in the Jets and Bucs, but Favre refused to speak to officials from either team.

Sounds like, if just playing football is Favre's real desire, he has that oppportunity. He is just choosing to not play for those teams, one of whom was a playoff team last year.

[The Leaper]

Sounds like, if just playing football is Favre's real desire, he has that oppportunity. He is just choosing to not play for those teams, one of whom was a playoff team last year.

Favre has the right to do what is necessary to get where he wants to be at this point IMO. Both sides are playing hardball...you can't sit here and say that Favre should operate with one hand tied behind his back.

He has the right to refuse to talk to someone...just as Green Bay has the right to trade him wherever they want to right now.

So why isn't Green Bay just trading him to Oakland for a pair of shoes to be done with it?

[Fritz]

No, Favre can exert whatever pressure he feels like he has to to get what he wants, sure.

But what he's done flies in the face of all that he's said - for years and years - about the Packers, the importance of team, and playing until he felt he couldn't or the Pack didn't want him.

So of course he can do what he wants. But he's asking for the kind of special treatment that no other player in the NFL would get. I have no sympathy for the man at this point. Not that he needs mine. But that's how I feel.

[The Gunshooter]

Interesting, as much as I can't stand Favre now, he does hold all the cards. I would take him back as Rodgers back up.